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Filipino human rights defenders Zara Alvarez, Anna Mariz Evangelista, and Elisa Badayos were among the 62 women killed in the Duterte administration's counterinsurgency campaign. Their loved ones remember the lives they led and the legacies they left behind. The documentary is a salute to the brave Filipinas who are considered heroes by women’s and people’s movements in the Philippines.
In 1963, at the height of the civil rights movement, the Loyola Ramblers of Chicago broke racial barriers and changed college basketball forever. Now, nearly 60 years later, this legendary team is reexamined by Loyola basketball player and co-captain, Lucas Williamson. Woven together with archival footage and modern day interviews, this captivating story continues to provide inspiration in the fight for equality.
Big and dangerous predators are invading unexpected waters, from golf courses and swimming pools to lakes and backyard keys. Through analyzing user-generated footage, shark experts get to the bottom of how and why sharks seem more willing than ever to meet us on our own turf. In a bizarre twist, people encountering sharks in unexpected places are called to urgent action.
Slovenia? For many, if not most passengers on any international airliner, Slovenia is easily missed while crossing its territory in less than ten minutes. A hiker on the ground, however, would be forced to explore, within an entire life-time, the stunning variety of natural monuments, scenic landscapes and wildlife lined up along a one-hundred-mile transect from sea to summit – from the olive gardens of Slovenia’s Mediterranean coast to the snow-covered peaks and high pastures of the Julian Alps. Connoisseurs have described Slovenia as “a world in a nutshell”, and with some justification: nearly two thirds of the country’s area are greened by unbroken woodland that reminds of Canada. Ancient Mediterranean oaks, beech forests with canopies like cathedrals, hanging pine woods clinging to near-vertical, inaccessible mountainsides up to the treeline harbour more pristine habitats than countries ten times the size of Slovenia.
An inconsistent story with student interviews filmed by Sparkman within 24 hours.
On May 16th, 2019, the State of Maine made history by passing LD 944 An Act to Ban Native American Mascots in All Public Schools, the first legislation of its kind in the country. For Maine's tribal nations, the landmark legislation marked an end to a decades long struggle to educate the public of the harms of Native American mascotry. Fighting Indians chronicles the last and most contentious holdout in that struggle, the homogeneously white Skowhegan High School, known for decades as "The Home of the Indians". This is the story of a small New England community forced to reckon with its identity, its sordid history, and future relationship with its indigenous neighbors. It is a story of a small town divided against the backdrop of a nation divided where the "mascot debate" exposes centuries old abuses while asking if reconciliation is possible.
A look into the debate team at Fort Scott High School.
An edible indelible organic oneiric mushroom movie made for Bradley Eros on his 70th Birthday!
The Austrian Alps are a beautiful but hostile environment, with fewer people living within them on a daily basis, but Andi and Andrea decided to make them their home.
Place of power ...
What were you doing in 2005? Antonio Lobato and Pedro de la Rosa remember it very well, they told all of Spain about the feat of Fernando Alonso, a young Asturian driver who became the first Spanish Formula 1 champion. Without a doubt, it was the year that changed our lives.
This is the big story of a tiny country of just 2.8 million people. It tells the story of the path of scientists, of the unforgettable eureka moments, of unique inventions that are both astonishing in their abundance and engaging in the story of a new, safer, and more sustainable world that we can build together.
The story of the Fall of the World's Most Liveable City, through the eyes of those who risked everything to save it.
An intimate portrait of a unique sportswoman in extreme life roles. Mother of three adopted children, world and European champion in fitness and record holder on long distances throughout Slovakia. Soňa Kopčoková is a former professional fitness athlete with the titles of World and European Champion. After the end of her elite sporting career, she devoted herself fully to her family until she discovered that she loves long-distance running in the mountains. And so today she fulfils her dreams in the hills, running often only by herself... On June 16, 2021, she reached Devín after 11 days, 15 hours and 30 minutes in a new Slovak women's record on the SNP Heroes' Route route. From Dukla to Bratislava, she ran alone, without support and with only a single backpack where she carried everything, she needed to survive...
Luis, a dancer and classical ballet teacher, experiences a connection between himself and dance despite his old age.
The rise, fall, and legacy of gay rights warrior Jeffrey Montgomery, and the struggle for equality in the Midwest.
Ukrainian women tell us what they are experiencing and what they are suffering: the female perspective on an ongoing war.
Gidam (‘all the way’) follows a young woman who, like many other Sudanese, takes to the streets to demand the departure of the military government. The protagonist (remaining nameless for security reasons) takes to the streets, animating the protests with the revolutionary power of her djembe. Through her music she feels the spiritual power of the beat and the intimate connection with protestors.
This isn’t a happy story. This is a story of grief, of loss, of fire and fury. It’s the story of a boy who knew nothing, and something outside of him that pulled him into a shadowy place beyond good and evil to show him his darkness, his malice, his vastness, and ultimately, his real self. This is the story of OBLIVIØN.
Matriarch is an experimental short documentary celebrating the legacy of elderly motherhood from the perspective of the filmmaker's grandmothers, two Southern Black women hoping to maintain their independence during what could potentially be the final year of their lives.
Users of alternative community mental health resources express their relationship to art and life. The intimate experience of art, of the studio, of associating with artists and of seeing oneself as an artist changes their lives as they contemplate the relationship between art and madness.
Under the Hull takes viewers behind the scenes as the Newport, Rhode Island based team lines up against the masters of the sport of offshore sailing – the French – in the build-up to the double-handed race across the Atlantic. From the building of a brand new, state-of-the-art 60-foot foiling race boat, to the physical, mental and onboard training, the film gives unrivaled insights into the highs and lows as the four sailors, supported by an international shore team, prepared their two entries – Mālama and Alaka’i – for the race of the year.
After being told that her husband Greg Davis, a Vietnam veteran and photographer, died unexpectedly in 2003 from defoliant during the Vietnam War, Director Sakata began to travel to Vietnam to learn what had happened to him. There, she witnessed children born with severe disabilities due to the effects of Agent Orange, even 30 years after the war, and the families who nurtured and cared for them. Although Vietnam has achieved remarkable economic development since then, the victims and their families have been left behind. The film depicts these people, the doctors who continue their support activities, and the former journalists who filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government and the company that produced the defoliant, as they continue to face the scars of the war.
A community's fight for justice and equality (economic, political, social) in a city still affected by a racial massacre that took place over 120 years ago.
After being crushed by the pandemic and shifting all shows online, actor Joseph Knight talks about his experience coordinating shows over Zoom.
In the Faroe Islands, a nation with no trees, artist and craftsman Ole Jakob Nielsen sculpts exquisite lamps using rare wood from trees of yesteryear.
22 Falklands War veterans relive their experiences 40 years later in a moving, human account.
The inhabitants of the village of Tichilesti in eastern Romania live far away from civilization, in the quiet among dogs and cats that roam the streets. However, this tranquillity portends death as Tichilesti was where lepers were sent years ago.
The film is constructed from video material that the author shot in 1999 at the horseshoe factory in Karlovac (closed in 2005). It consists of 99 shots. A special software arranges the shots in a new random order each time it is run. Each generated configuration represents a unique author film - the Nth Cinematic Nail Factory, where N is the ordinal number of each film edited in this way.
The documentary "@predioposto13 - Meu Nome É União" weaves together memories of the former Hotel União, located on the banks of the Presidente Dutra Highway, in Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro. Deactivated for about 20 years, it is an icon of Baixada Fluminense for being a point of reference for residents and a large mural of the carioca xarpi. The film exposes and discusses the filmmaking process itself, the value of urban art and capitalism through a collective lens.
In 1918, the Swedish army landed on the Åland Islands by three warships. The Finnish Civil War had spilled over to Åland from the Finnish mainland. The Swedes came as a so called peacekeepers, but in fact Sweden wanted to retake the islands and yet again make then part of Sweden. But why did the islands become part of Finland?
Follow Sefa’s musical journey towards his biggest show to date: Defqon.1 2022. In this documentary “Sefa: Road To Defqon.1” we follow Sefa up close from his first appearance at Defqon in 2017 at 16 years old, his legendary ‘Black stage’ performance in 2018 where the area was completely overrun by fans, his 2019 closing of the main stage and finally this year's already legendary performance during the ‘Opening Ceremony’ of the RED stage in which he turned the hard dance scene upside down with the addition of live strings, a drummer, a guitarist, a 45 piece choir and himself - not behind the DJ booth, but behind his piano and as a conductor of his own show: “This Is Sefa”. We hear the testimonies of his fans, collaborateurs, partners and friends. Depicted by cameraman and director of this documentary Auke Brinkman who followed Sefa around with his camera since the early days, capturing every aspect of his life.
STOP COP CITY is about the militant occupation of Atlanta's South River Forest. For over a year, a coalition of militant anarchists, community organizers, and eco-activists have been resisting police and contractors to halt the deforestation of hundreds of acres of urban forest.
Told through the perspective of a street artist, this film brings audiences into the controversial world of Graffiti and Street Art. a world where the public perception of the craft often borderlines between artistry and a public nuisance.
Power grandpa Edi goes about his daily life in Slovenia, filling his grandson Jan’s eyes with the wonder of ageing that only youth allows. Posing the question, ‘Who are our greatest influencers?’
Over the course of the two-hour special, GONE BEFORE HER TIME, we'll celebrate the controversies, influences, and legacies of five iconic female performers whose lives tragically ended just as they were at the peaks of their careers. These are vocalists so big, we only need their first names to conjure their music in our ears and beauty in our eyes.
Belgian civil engineer Gustave Verniory still had a lot to learn when in 1889 he was hired to construct a railroad across the unspoiled natural landscape of Araucanía, a region that had recently become part of Chile. The tumultuous past and the ever-changing landscape are a constant background presence in Notes for a Film.
Chronicles the life of African American Johnny Bright trailblazer who changed College football forever. Despite experiencing one of the most egregious acts of violence in the history of sports in 1951, Bright carved out his own path in life to enjoy a Hall of Fame career in the Canadian Football League. Perhaps, Bright's most significant accomplishment was as an Educator, Coach and Principal where he influenced the lives of hundreds of kids.
A snapshot experience of a Polycule
In the 2019/2020 Black Summer, Australia suffered some of the worst bushfires in its history, observed from afar by the Himawari-8 meteorological satellite. Terabytes of satellite data were processed into an unprecedented stream of images for this experimental documentary.
Two brothers use thoughtful interview fragments, pieces of art, and various family mementos to explore their father’s legacy.
Former State Pathologist, Dr. Marie Cassidy leads a brand new investigation into the killing of revolutionary, soldier and politician Michael Collins in August 1922, an event that ignited acrimonious arguments that have endured ever since.
Nolo, a young skater, shows us how skateboarding survives and develops in Celaya, Guanajuato, one of the most dangerous cities in the world.
The employees of Prometheus were known as brilliant engineers capable of solving problems of a cosmic scale in the truest sense of the word — they, among other things, developed light-and-life devices for the interior design of spacecraft. The ideologist of the team Bulat Galeev was in correspondence with the classics of experimental art: Nicolas Schaeffer, Frank Malina, Yanis Xenakis, Lev Theremin, and although in Soviet times the bureau could not fully participate in the international art process, today many European institutions work with its archives. Didar Orazov's film, which includes digitized archival materials and new interviews with eyewitnesses of the heyday of Prometheus, is an attempt to touch an original phenomenon that the entire Soviet (and not only) intellectual world watched with awe in the second half of the XX century, to tell about what was behind the inspired experiments, about sincere love towards the future and endless curiosity.
1989 is largely remembered as the year in which the Berlin Wall fell. But, beneath the rubble of the Berlin Wall lies the Romanian Revolution. In December of 1989, the fight against the mutilated form of Marxism practiced by Nicolae Ceaușescu came to a head when civilian protestors were fired upon by Ceaușescu's military police in Timisoara, killing an estimated 76 people. To ease tension, Ceaușescu delivered a speech to the industrial workers of Bucharest. However, it was not long before the crowd began to jeer in response to Ceaușescu's pontifications. Ceaușescu was arrested by their response, for right before his eyes he witnessed the end of his tyrannical rule and the beginning of the revolution. Ceaușescu was captured on December 23, and on December 25, a military tribunal was formed, where Ceaușescu and his wife were convicted of genocide by starvation. They were then executed by a firing squad.
"Otherlogue IV" is a screen dance meditation presenting choreographic portraits that explore family history and hoodrat things with friends. The film is directed, shot, and edited by bree gant and was created in collaboration with artists Celia Benvenutti, Hanniyah Cross, and Raven Whitney Joel, with appearances by Dr. Leon Gant and Nahimana Aponi. The soundtrack features music by Dave Gulley. – bree gant
Embark on an unforgettable journey through the picturesque vineyards of Italy, where one man's passion for wine leads him to discover not only exceptional wines but also the true meaning of life.
New cosmopolitanism started with the bromocorah’s (free agent) dynasty. Through Palah (Panataran), we see the legitimacy of his great-grandsons appropriating the power of the Central Javanese dynasty, perpetuating the throne and cultural hegemony through the story of the man in the tkes hat, Panji.
Ducky Dynamo discusses the history of Baltimore Club, the city's unique music and dance genre that is poised for a post-pandemic comeback. "Club music isn’t dead, we just lost a lot of momentum. My focus now is working with everybody to reignite the culture, get people to see what is good here...based specifically on the Baltimore Club scene."